| Rank | Lance Corporal |
| Service # | A/49834 |
| Unit # | Kent Regiment, R.C.I.C., 1st Battalion |
Son of Frank and Elizabeth McKishnie, of Robertson Ave., Chatham, ON. The husband of Mary McKishnie, of Chatham.
Murray had attended the Erieau public school before the family moved to Chatham, then to Central School and the Chatham Collegiate Institute. For a time before he enlisted he was employed by the Shell Oil Co.
Murray was well known in Chatham and Erieau where he played for the hockey team and had been a former employee of the Kolby fisheries. He spent many summer with friend in the ‘Eau’. He had spent his furlouge with his wife at a cottage at Eireau which had been purcheased by his family,
Murray enlisted 6 August, 1940 and was repoted to be a “good soldier”.
Age: 23, DOAI –Date of Death: 01/08/1942, It was reported that he had been riding a motorcycle during night manoevers when the accident accured inNew Westminister, British Columbia. Murry wwas in a collision with an army truck and had been rushed to a military hospital in critical condition, he did not recover.
Murray had been home in June on furlough, he had been married 19 months ago.
Lt.-Col. W. Grant Thomson (O.B.E.) Officer Commanding the 2nd Battalion, Kent Regt. would see that a full honours military funeral would be provided once the body returned to Chatham. CDN 4/08/42. The military funeral would be under the direction of Lieut-Col. Thomson, Major the Rev. Roy D. Mess rector of Christ Church conducted the service.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
| Sources | “The First 200 Years” by Alvin Armstrong. Blenheim IODE Tablet of Remembrance., BSH-RH, BBS-RH, IODE(P), TBD-RH, BFL-B, MVL, CDN (4 &5/08/42) |
| Supplemental Information | Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Lot 69. Ward F. Cemetery: CHATHAM (MAPLE LEAF) CEMETERY. |
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